The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-11-01
ROSE AND WHITE.
How Pietro Found His Wife-A
Corsican Legend.

Long ago the brothers Luidgi and
Pietro were living in the town of Vico
i'm Corsica; they were proud, brave,
generous and lazy as Corsicans are.
One day Luidgi said to Pietro: you
are growing thin every day, you sigh
during the whole night, you have no
more appetite, what is ailing your"
Brother" replied Pietro, 81 want
to marry"
Very WE'LL" answered Luidgi. mar
~ and be done with it; this crime is a
common one; every man or nearly
every man takes a wife, and we have
}plenty of good and handsome girls all
y around us; make a choice and give me
asister to cherish as do you, brother. II"
THAT seems to be an easy matter
with you, Luidgi, but if told you that
Iwant perfectly and naturally rose
and-white girl for my wife what would
you sayP"
That pretension of yours changes
the situation considerably. Why, there
is not in Corsica a single girl who does
not put two pounds of flour and one
pound of carmine on her cheeks every
month. If you persist in your exacting,
Pietro. fear that you will die in the
skin of an old bachelor, which is GER
tainly worthy of consideration"
mo, Twill not die a bachelor, and
for that reason / will request you to
travel the country in search of the girl
that my heart calls for. If you find
her, Luidgi, make haste to return and
Twill marry her on the spot. Remem-
Der, she must be perfectly and natural
ly rose-and-white."
Laidgi, who was a good fellow,
kissed his brother, took big sponge
that he wet well, mounted his horse
and departed on his mission. He
travelled many miles, and as soon as
he saw pretty girl coming Ca being
very common in Corsica) quickly he
6ismounted, rushed at her and pressed
his sponge to her face. Alas! the
sponge caused the comely face to turn
q little swarthy; then discouraged he
pursued his course reciting the verses
made on women by the Arab poet, a
savage:
(S.yerily women are treacherous to every one
near or distant;
With their fingers dyed with kenna; with their
hair arranged In plaits,
With their faces whitened and crimsoned, their
eyes painted with kohl.
They make one drink Of sorrowf"
THAT Arab knew them thoroughly"
(the Arabs ought toy, said he to him.
self 81 tramp like the Wandering
Jew from north to south. from east to
west see hundreds of women, young
and old, carrying on their faces the
substance of quite a number of poor
families. Was it for that purpose that
God created wheat? The rich ones
use ceruse and arsenic; the making of
ceruse is deadly to the workmen; the
use of arsenic is deadly to the women.
Are they all crazy? do not blame
my brother for his wish, but l blame
myself for going on this FOOLS er-
rand"
And he became so tired with the
failure of his mission that he resolved
A 10 return home, when, one night, hav-
ing accepted the hospitality of an old
hermit, he sighed so much that the
next morning his host, who had heard
him, asked the cause of his affection.
"Ah!' said he, '.good father, l am
In search of wife for my brother, and
I am unsuccessful in my undertak-
ing"
"And what kind of a wife does he
expect, that you can not find girl
worthy of becoming his better half?
Are the Corsican girls so ugly and so
ibad that you experience so much diff
kAelty to meet one as your brother
Wishes her to be?"
mot at all, father; our girls are
handsome and honest, but they dis
figure themselves by painting their
faces as a BARRIERS pole. They forget
that the beauty described by Solomon
In his Song of the Songs said of her.
self:
"sIo sono buma, ma bella,
Come lie tende di Chedar;
Come padiglioni di Salomone'"
CT am dark but handsome as the
tents of Chedar, as the pavilions of
Solomon.)
"Do not trouble yourself any more
T. about your brothers desire that have
Guessed. He wants a girl perfectly
anN naturally rose and white" replied
The hermit.
"Yes. father"
"All right. l know where YOU will